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$1M donor once wanted for 'criminal mischief'

The biggest donor in April to a pro-Mitt Romney super PAC, Restore our Future, once got into a dispute that culminated with him driving a photographer’s SUV into a pond — an incident he called “regrettable.”

John Kleinheinz, hedge fund manager and owner of Kleinheinz Capital Partners, gave $1 million in April to the super PAC, according to new filings.

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Kleinheinz faced a third degree felony charge after the incident took place near his Fort Worth Texas home nearly seven years ago, according to a report in the Star-Telegram.

The photographer, David “Smiley” Irvin, had been taking pictures of Kleinheinz’s wife and two children from property that Irvin said belonged to the nearby River Crest Country Club. But Kleinheinz accused Irvin of trespassing on his $10 million dollar property which is near the club, and threatened to call the police.

As the dispute escalated, Kleinheinz jumped into Irvin’s rented Kia SUV, put it in gear and jumped out before it drove into a pond, as his family looked on.

Police determined that Kleinheinz had caused $16,000 worth of damage to the vehicle, which also contained more than $25,000 worth photographic equipment. He was charged with criminal mischief because of the amount of money involved. The charge came with a potential two to 10 year prison sentence

At the time, Kleinheinz told the Star-Telegram that he regretted the incident. “This was not an isolated incident, but it was regrettable,” Kleinheinz said.

Kleinheinz’ $1 million check made him the largest contributor to the super PAC in April. He was a supporter of both Romney and John McCain’s presidential bids in the 2008 election and has been a long-time supporter of Republican politicians.

Kleinheinz did not respond to a request for comment. And Brittany Gross, a spokesman for Restore our Future also declined to comment. “We don’t comment on specific donors,” Gross said.

I'm continually amazed that the partisan press is able to dig up all this dirt - not just on Romney going back fifty years to his high school days, but also those who support him.

But this same press was unable to find out that less than twenty years ago Obama was claiming in his publisher's bio that he was born in Kenya.

They have nothing to say about his admitted cocaine use.

They don't mention how he wrote that he "drank his way through school, barely attending classes".

Nothing is said about his communist mentor, about his association with American terrorists, about his twenty years attending a racist church.

Nothing is said about any connection his policies have with dismal state of our economy, with the unprecedented rise in the the country's debt, with the worst unemployment rate since the great depresson.

No one is investigating the manipulation of government statistics to make the unemployment rate look like it's under 9% when it's really over 14%. Nothing is said about the Obama administration releasing false figures about the number of people on unemployment, then "revising" the figures a few days later when the partisan press can safely ignore it. This has been done 51 of the last 52 weeks.

I maintain that the left-wing partisan press is nothing more than the propaganda wing of the socialist party and they bias the news to make Obama look good and his opponents look bad.

So why was the photographer taking pictures of his wife and children. Is it any worse that Bill Maher, Obamas million dollar goof saying cutting off someone's hair is worse than child molestation....I sure wouldn't want Bill Maher around my kids. How about Obamas main man...Tony Resko...he is spending time in prison right now. The list goes on and on with Obama supporters.

The biggest donor in April to a pro-Mitt Romney super PAC, Restore our Future, once got into a dispute that culminated with him driving a photographer’s SUV into a pond — an incident he called “regrettable.”

This story is clearly out of bounds and Politico had no business giving it credibility by including it in their web-site. This story is a transparent attempt by the Liberal Press to intimidate private donors for Mitt Romney by threatening to go after every bit of dirt they can find against PRIVATE CITIZENS just for the sin of giving money to a candidate they want to see elected. Remember all of that B.S. about poor Sandra Fluke and Rush Limbaugh? All that "She's a private citizen" crap (When she wasn't BTW) and here we are going after a PRIVATE CITIZEN, only this time it's okay because these are Republicans and, in the eyes of the Lame-Stream Press, "some animals are more equal than others". (Am I right, Politico?) What does the antics of a donor have to do with the election, unless the goal is to isolate Mitt Romney from the money stream to help your preferred candidate, Barack Obama?

Now if you want a REAL story, how about mentioning an early supporter of Barack Obama, a man named Bill Ayers, who was a known terrorist, involved in a group called the Weather Underground, who actually killed and injured people in the name of radicalism. How about we see how much money he gave (And is no doubt GIVING) to Obama's campaign, Hmmmm? Not much of a comparison to a guy charged with Criminal Mischief, is it? That's okay, this isn't much of a story either. You disgust me, Abby Phillip. Shame, Politico... Shame... Shame... Shame...

And this is a big deal - why? Where was Politico on the coverage of Rezko and the illegal activity that placed the Obama's in a house they could not otherwise afford? Where was Politico on the coverage of Acorn? Where was Politico on the paybacks to Obama donors with big government contracts paid for by taxpayers? Obama was manufactured by Chicago corruption.

This is the latest in several totally biased BS stories posted by politico this past week that have nothing to do with Romney's governance, political platform, personal views, or competence. Last week we had the story about how one of the people in a Romney ad had previously been arrested. Now we have politico authors digging up donor personal life history....

This article demonstrates the panic by the extreme left (not all of politicos authors but many) to try and do anything they can to derail the Romney train. The far left is grasping at straws here and as hard as they may try this election is going to be about Obama and his failed presidency not about people that donate to Romney's campaign, or people in television ads, or people that Romney has never personally met.

This article and others like it that I've seen on Politico over the past week smell of desperation and reek of filthy biased reporting and should be classified as an opinion piece and not a news story.

Is this what Politico is going to do? Try to pile dirt on Romney supporters one at a time? Are you left wing whackos so desperate that you need to harass private citizens while you whine about Jeremiah "God D*mn America" Wright?

You can't find out what Obama did ten minutes ago but you can find out what Mitt Romney did on given day in his entire life. And still no Obama college records?